Victim of Bloody Sunday

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This disturbing photos shows the body of 18-year-old ethnic german girl Gertrud Rohnde, daughter of the peasant Rohde of Langenau. On september 3rd 1939 several thousand people of the german minority were slaughtered by a mob consisting polish civilians and militaries. Just in the city of Bromberg between 1200 and 1500 germans inc. women, children and old people were murdered beastly. On the picture you can see that two of the fingers of the girl's right hand have been chopped off for the poles might be able to steal her rings.

Hi guys! I live in Bromberg/Bydgoszcz. I've added comment regarding bloody sunday to other pic. There are still nazi-propaganda remainings. Pls READ EITHER GERMAN OR POLISH historian about that. New researchs on subject draw clear conclusion. German...

Hi guys! I live in Bromberg/Bydgoszcz. I've added comment regarding bloody sunday to other pic. There are still nazi-propaganda remainings. Pls READ EITHER GERMAN OR POLISH historian about that. New researchs on subject draw clear conclusion. German started while polish forces were trying to leave city (Maciej is right) but at the end of the day more victims were german (approx 300, and approx. 200 polish). Lot of them were criminal murders, when riots started lot of people took revange for old cases (polish-german neighbourhood was not easy, at any time). Some people lived together in peace, some not - you know how it is, we all've got neighbours:) At times of depression after 1929 life was rough. Poor people stealed goods of those who were more propertied(some of them were german, some polish). After outbreak of war people knew that they hade to gather food to survive (shop's were closed), there was war comming in as well as hard winter (there were hard winters in several years of 1930s so people expected another one). War has no rules. My point is that no one was NOT guilty, these german were as well Bromberg citizen as polish. In october 1939 german authority of city issued special act which said: 'Everything in Bromberg belongs to german'.After couple of days several thosands of polish citizen were removed from homes and replaced by german from Romania and Moldavia. Some of polish citizen were sent to Auschwitz and other camps, some (Jews) to ghetto, other sent to Warsaw district or wherever they wanted to go, they were homeless anyway. To whitewash this act and other crimes which german committed in Poland and elsewhere they employed their propaganda to popularise rumour about events of Bloody Sunday. That rumour is still being copied by semi-educated historians who can not tell the propaganda false from true (it's enough to ask some german and polish witnesses to get some idea about that). IDON'T SAY THAT POLES ARE NOT GUILTY. I do say that's better to use some common sense than just to judge anyone. Both sides were guilty, both sides killed. Sorry for my english (still learning). I'm employed at Bromberg University, historian. Regards

I was discussing this incident with my history teacher, and I also found some information on this event. What happened was that some members of the German military donned Polish garb and went to a border post, where they began to massacre the victims so...

I was discussing this incident with my history teacher, and I also found some information on this event. What happened was that some members of the German military donned Polish garb and went to a border post, where they began to massacre the victims so that they could justify an invasion of Poland. I don't know the explicit details but they're out there somewhere. ^^

Posted by boxerrick41 on Tue 10 Jun 2008 03:03:33 PM EDT

yes, i said before, war brings outthe best in some, heroism and valor, and worst in others, excuse to rape and murder

and im taking into account all the political, and ideology factors, i know hitlers reasons for wanting poland, it would have made a better buffer between germany and ussr if they hadnt been so cruel, with this insane hatred of jews.the jewish people...

and im taking into account all the political, and ideology factors, i know hitlers reasons for wanting poland, it would have made a better buffer between germany and ussr if they hadnt been so cruel, with this insane hatred of jews.the jewish people were given a hard time in the US by a lot of folks, ive never understood that fully,

its awful, either way, what the nazis did, and this revenge massacre, it sames like after the first shots, everyone, pole and german, was out for blood. its a shame, as looking at the pics as an outsider, both seemed to be such similar, hard working...

its awful, either way, what the nazis did, and this revenge massacre, it sames like after the first shots, everyone, pole and german, was out for blood. its a shame, as looking at the pics as an outsider, both seemed to be such similar, hard working folks with much in common

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